The Glacier Mass Balance Intercomparison Exercise is out! Herculean effort bringing together >200 estimates of glacier loss outside the ice sheets. Bottom line is 273 gigatonnes per year of ice loss since the year 2000! 😲
Open-access article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z
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Open-access article: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41586-024-08545-z
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Snæfellsjökull only has a couple decades left. We already lost Ok.
https://www.esa.int/Applications/Observing_the_Earth/FutureEO/CryoSat/Glacier_melt_intensifying_freshwater_loss_and_accelerating_sea-level_rise